Create a Hyper-V VM for FreeNAS, Openfiler, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and more

Question

Hi all

I thought that this discussion will benefit all of us who are working in a company that has a host of diffrent servers that satisfy diffrent business needs.

Creating a Hyper-V virtual machine that can be consumed by development and testing environments, with the purpose of creating new features to extend existing products and services is extremely beneficitial.

The following blog posts along with my related need to create a Unix virtual machine inspired the idea for this discussion

Create a Hyper-V VM for FreeNAS, Openfiler, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, and more

http://www.servethehome.com/create-hyperv-vm-freenas-openfiler-linux-freebsd-opensolaris/

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How To Run Linux, UNIX, and Other OS’ on Hyper-V

http://blogs.technet.com/b/enterprise_admin/archive/2009/12/04/how-to-run-linux-unix-and-other-os-on-hyper-v.aspx

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Please respond with the issues you had and how you over came them, point form is best.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi Fabfella,

Great blogs, thanks for sharing.

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